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Clubs, sport and gyms in Sigtuna

The municipality has around 90 sports clubs and many more in culture and community life. Here are the ones that belong to Sigtuna town and where they meet, plus the gyms, the halls and the pitches.

Photo: Arild Vågen

Sports clubs

  • Sigtuna IF, the town's big club, built on football with youth teams from the youngest ages. Pitches at Prästängen. The club also runs the adventure golf on the waterfront.
  • Sigtuna Basket, teams of all ages in Prästängshallen.
  • Sigtuna Tennis Club, four indoor courts and three outdoor at Prästängshallen. Tennis school for children, court hire for everyone.
  • Sigtuna Golf Club, 18 holes just north of town with views over Lake Mälaren. Junior programme and green fees for guests.
  • Sigtuna Boat Club, founded 1948, runs the town harbour: berths, winter storage, the guest harbour. There is a queue for berths. Join it early.
  • Kanotklubben Mälarpiraterna, canoe and kayak on the lake, with beginners' courses.
  • Sigtuna Sports Club, swimming at Sigtuna Fritidscenter.
  • Sigtuna Orienteringsklubb, the orienteering club, based at Hällsbostugan at Prästängsvägen 2 by the floodlit track in Hällsboskogen. The cottage is open for training, a shower, the sauna and coffee on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 17.30 to 20.
  • Rävsta Riding Centre, Märsta Riding Club's riding school by the nature reserve, for children and adults.
  • Friluftsfrämjandet Märsta-Sigtuna, the outdoor association, around 500 members, with groups for children from one to thirteen, walks, kayaking and long-distance skating. The Skogsmulle group meets by Hällsbostugan in Hällsboskogen, and the branch keeps the walkers' cottage Embarsboda in Rävsta open on Sundays through the darker half of the year. There is no scout group in Sigtuna town at the moment. The nearest are Märsta and Rosersberg.
  • Shooting and hunting: the shooting clubs at Rosersberg range are under Nature, fishing and hunting.

Gyms

For a town of ten thousand there are plenty of gyms, and two of them open at five.

  • SATS Sigtuna, Stora gatan 31. A chain gym in the middle of the pedestrian street with the cardio machines facing the lake. Open 05:00 to 22:30 Monday to Thursday and 05:00 to 20:00 Friday to Sunday, staffed in the daytime. From 449 kronor a month.
  • WE Sigtuna, at the end of Stora gatan, and WE Stadsängarna in the new district. Gym, group classes, CrossFit, yoga and padel, open from 05:00. Drop-in sessions can be bought.
  • Betongfabriken träningscenter, in the old concrete works at Wenngarn, with a smaller room at Stora Brännbo. 700 square metres with a lifting platform, machines, CrossFit, a golf simulator and a studio for small-team training, yoga and circuits. Massage and a physiotherapist in the building.
  • Tränamer, Arlandastad, ten minutes by car. The municipality's largest gym, 2,600 square metres on two floors with Eleiko and Hammer Strength, a broad class schedule, childcare and access around the clock.
  • Outdoor gyms, free, at Prästängshallen, Midgårdsvallen in Märsta and the Valsta lit trail.

Pool, halls and pitches

  • Sigtuna Fritidscenter, the swimming pool in the middle of town on Rektor Cullbergs väg 10: 25 by 10 metres, a children's pool, hot tub and sauna. Lane swimming, aqua aerobics and swimming lessons. Hours and prices on sigtuna.se.
  • Prästängshallen, the town's sports hall, 40 by 20 metres with seating for 350. Football pitches, tennis courts and an outdoor gym next to it. The school gyms are booked by clubs through the municipality.
  • Exercise trails in Rävsta nature reserve and the Hällsbo track, 2.5 kilometres and floodlit from Hällsbostugan at Prästängsvägen 2. Ski tracks on both when the snow allows, and an obstacle course of two kilometres with twelve obstacles starting at Hällsbostugan.
  • In Märsta: the Pinbackshallen ice rink with public skating, the Midgårdsbadet adventure pool with gym and spa, and the athletics arena.
  • The beaches in summer: Nature, fishing and hunting.
The small-boat harbour in Sigtuna.
The boat club's harbour. Photo: Arild Vågen
The ice on Sigtunafjärden.
The bay in winter. Photo: Jssfrk
A park in Sigtuna in autumn.
The park by the water. Photo: Arild Vågen

Culture and community

  • Sigtuna Fornminnesförening, the antiquarian society, founded the museum in 1916 and arranges talks and walks on the town's history.
  • Choirs. St Mary's church choirs take singers of various ages.
  • Sigtuna town business association brings together the shops and restaurants, arranges the Christmas market with Destination Sigtuna and takes part in Sigtuna Möte.
  • The Red Cross and the pensioners' associations have local branches in town. The befriending service meets at Munken.
  • The Sigtuna Foundation is not a club but works like one: author evenings, concerts, conversations and courses for people who live here.

Find your club

The municipality's club directory lists every registered association with contact details. If you want to start something yourself: the municipality gives club grants and lends premises, and the Foundation and the library have rooms to borrow for discussion evenings.

Updated 2026-10-05